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Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, New Mexico, United States
ASTRO-PHYSICS
175 mm f/8 Starfire EDF (175EDF):
Integration: 9h
L: 19 x 600 sec
R: 15 x 600 sec
G: 14 x 600 sec
B: 8x 600 sec
Locations: Deep Sky West, Rowe, New Mexico, United States
ASTRO-PHYSICS 175 mm f/8 Starfire EDF (175EDF):
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611) 010822 -QHY 183C Pro cam on SW Quattro 250 P. 37 Minutes of data.
The Eagle Nebula, or Star Queen Nebula, lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, about 5700 light-years distant. Made famous by the Hubble Telescope, the Pillars of Creation can be seen in the center.
This image is composed of Hydrogen, Sulphur, and Oxygen filters, 12 hours 40 minutes total integration. Espirt 120mm, QHY268M camera.
This area of the Milky Way Galaxy has a wonderful string of nebulas and star clouds. I decided a few months ago that I wanted to make a DeepScape image of this grouping over Mount Shasta and determined I had three time windows where I thought I could pull it off. Last weekend was my second window and it luckily coincided with a fresh batch of snow on Shasta and Shastina! As soon as I saw the weather forecast, I packed up the Jeep and headed north.
From upper left to lower right, there is Eagle Nebula, Omega Nebula, The Small Sagittarius Star Cloud (center), Trifid Nebula, and Lagoon Nebula.
Sony A7S3, Canon 70-200mm f/2.8, 130mm, f/3.2, 55s, ISO1600. Astro stack of 64 Lights, 32 Darks, 32 Flats, and 32 Biases. Tracked on Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer. Foreground taken from same place with same settings, but during dusk. Relative size and position was maintained.
Quick timelapse video of the images I took along the way, including an annotated version of this image: vimeo.com/703919234
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745-46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the centre of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the Pillars of Creation.
This region of active current star formation is about 7000 light-years distant. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres long.
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon Ha filter
28x1800s in Ha and 16x1800s in OIII
Total exposure 22 hours
Taken from Coral Towers Observatory using an SBIG STL-11K camera and Takahashi BRC 250 telescope on a Software Bisque PME Mount.
L=Ha/IR R=IR>850 nm G=IR 800-900 nm B=IR 700-800 nm.
One hour each filter.
Eagle Nebula / M16 / NGC 6611 (Extract from full image)
H-alpha, S-II narrowband and photometric i’ (700-850nm) filters
Taking with the SIGMA fp (monochrome) / SIGMA fp L / Celestron RASA 11" / 10 Micron GM1000 Mount.
Total acquisition time ca. 3 hrs, ISO 1600, F2.2, 620mm
Registration in AstroPixelProcessor further processing to taste in Photoshop.
Full Image: markjamesford.prodibi.com/a/rd6jv5qzrx67079/i/9zjdxw296k4...
This is Messier 16, The Eagle Nebula, a well know target just south of the ecliptic. It is approximately 5700 light-years away, and lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
This is a bit of an experiment on my part. I wanted to reveal some of the subtle details contained within the narrowband Ha filter data, and present an image with a palette close to a traditional RGB image. In a conventional RGB image, M16 is very red across the entire image, but there are some nice blues from the OIII emissions. I find star colours are interesting in astronomical images. There is almost a radial extinction of star colour as you move from the outer regions of the image towards the very bright central portion of the picture. That's very cool indeed. They must be very hot and bright in that area.
Full resolution: live.staticflickr.com/65535/51660604759_90d4272e4b_o.jpg
Exposure Details:
Ha 18X600 Bin 1X1
Lum 57X600 Bin 1X1
Red 18X450 Bin 2X2
Green 18X450 Bin 2X2
Blue 16X450 Bin 2X2
TIme 19 Hours
Instruments
Telescope: 10" Ritchey-Chrétien RCOS
Camera: SBIG STL-11000 Mono
Mount: Astro-Physics AP-900
Focal Length: 2310.00 mm
Pixel size: 9.00 um
Resolution: 0.82 arcsec/pix
Thank you for looking
Messier 16, NGC 6611
An emission nebula in the constellation of Serpens
Exposure: 50 minutes.
Field of view: 1.5º x 1.0º
Image date: 2021-08-14.
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Further details:
I've always thought that good subjects are worthy of another visit and I was especially interested to try out processing with narrowband image data. A while ago, I shared my results from this same Eagle Nebula and more recently, I was able to try again only with narrowband images from a high quality 20" telescope. So in addition to shooting with filters that target broadband colors (red, green, and blue, I also got narrowband wavelengths that target Ha (Hydrogen Alpha), Oiii (Oxygen III), and Sii (Sulphur II).
I liked that the additional color detail helped to separate the Pillars of Creation from the blue nebula clouds behind it. This version seems to have a lot more detail and depth in the clouds. It's interesting that this image is smaller in terms of resolution but the quality of the color data is much improved in my view. I look forward to learning more about shooting narrowband when I can.
Calibrated images of Eagle Nebula were provided by iTelescope.net. In addition to providing access to their telescopes, iTelescope.net provides subscribing members with a combination of premium image sets (with the rights to use & post them) and webinars that show how to process them. Itelescope.net captured the images and I did the post-processing with Astro Pixel Processor, Photoshop, and Topaz Sharpen and DeNoise AI.
Exposure Settings
• 18 broadband images with 5 minutes exposures (6 red, 6 green & 6 blue)
• 9 narrowband images with 30 minute exposures (3 Ha, 3 Oiii, and 3 Sii)
• Total Exposure Time: 360 minutes
Tele Vue 85
Tele Vue 0.8x reducer/flattener
Optolong L-eXtreme
ZWO ASI533MC Pro
Skywatcher AZ-EQ5
Guiding ZWO ASI120MC-S + William Optics UniGuide 32mm
Nebulosity4
PHD2
PixInsight
Photoshop
Only 3 300" lights dithered
Calibrated with dark and bias frames
Cairns, Australia
Bortle 5
An open cluster of young stars forming in a zone of hydrogen - either as cold dense dark clouds or less dense bright areas of gas emitting strongly in the hydrogen alpha wavelength.
Eventually, the light pressure of ultraviolet radiation from the young stars will push the clouds of gas away leaving just an open cluster like the Pleiades.
Infrared analysis of the iconic Eagle dark nebula shows more young stars forming within.
Narrowband images mapped to Hubble palette:
Green: 16 x 10 minute Hydrogen alpha sub-exposures
Blue: 17 x 10 minute Oxygen III sub-exposures
Red: 10 x 10 minute Sulphur II sub-exposures.
The OIII and SII subexposures had much more "star-blooming" than the others - perhaps a higher gain was used.
I aggressively used Morphological Transform and the "Reduce Magenta Banding" script in PixInsight to reduce magenta banding around the stars - not perfect here but acceptable.
iTelescope T21, a 1939mm focal length, f/4.5 corrected Dall-Kirkham scope.
Astrometry
Center (RA, hms): 18h 19m 12.203s
Center (Dec, dms): -13° 48' 03.394"
Size: 31.2 x 26.3 arcmin
Radius: 0.340 deg
Pixel scale: 0.956 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 0.886 degrees E of N
The Eagle Nebula is located in the constellation Serpens, 6,500-7000 light years away, and stretches approximately 70 by 55 light years. It is formed around a star cluster that is around 2 million years young. The nebula itself is a 5.5 million year old cloud of dust and molecular hydrogen gas, and is thought to contain several star forming regions.
Phillippe Loys de Cheseaux discovered the Eagle Nebula in the mid 18th century. But his original description was only the cluster of stars. Charles Messier independently rediscovered it in 1764 as part of his catalogue, giving it the catchy name of M16.
Located in the top left hand side of the image, there is an incredible looking structure known as the Stellar Spire. It is roughly 9.5 light years long. Cosmic sea horse?
Enjoy this amazing view while you can as both the Spire and the Pillars in the Eagle Nebula are already likely to be gone. 8500 years ago, a supernova explosion created massive shock waves moving through the nebula. This process would have taken thousands of years to sweep through the region, in the end, destroying the delicate structures that we can see today.
If you access to a fairly modest low powered telescope, or even with a pair of binoculars, you will be able to view this nebula from a dark location. You should be able to see around twenty stars, surrounded by gas and dust.
Instruments Used:
Telescope: RC10 (RCOS)
Camera:STL-11000 (SBIG)
Mount:AP900 (Astro-Physics)
Filters: Ha 7nm, SII 8.0 nm, OIII 8.5 nm (Baader Planetarium)
Image Details:
Resolution:0.804 arcsec/pix
Focal length: 2309.84 mm (9.1)
Pixel size:9.00 um
Image processing with CCDStack and Photoshop.
Terry
The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope's mid-infrared view of the Pillars of Creation strikes a chilling tone. Thousands of stars that exist in this region disappear from view — and seemingly endless layers of gas and dust become the centrepiece.
The detection of dust by Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) is extremely important — dust is a major ingredient for star formation. Many stars are actively forming in these dense blue-grey pillars. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in these regions, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars.
Although the stars appear to be missing, they aren’t. Stars typically do not emit much mid-infrared light. Instead, they are easiest to detect in ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared light. In this MIRI view, two types of stars can be identified. The stars at the end of the thick, dusty pillars have recently eroded most of the more distant material surrounding them but they can be seen in mid-infrared light because they are still surrounded by cloaks of dust. In contrast, blue tones indicate stars that are older and have shed most of their gas and dust.
Mid-infrared light also details dense regions of gas and dust. The red region toward the top, which forms a delicate V shape, is where the dust is both diffuse and cooler. And although it may seem like the scene clears toward the bottom left of this view, the darkest grey areas are where densest and coolest regions of dust lie. Notice that there are many fewer stars and no background galaxies popping into view.
Webb’s mid-infrared data will help researchers determine exactly how much dust is in this region — and what it’s made of. These details will make models of the Pillars of Creation far more precise. Over time, we will begin to understand more clearly how stars form and burst out of these dusty clouds over millions of years.
Contrast this view with Webb’s near-infrared light image.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Image Description: Semi-opaque layers of blue and grey gas and dust start at the bottom left and rise toward the top right. There are three prominent pillars. The left pillar is the largest and widest. The peaks of the second and third pillars are set off in darker shades of blue outlines. Few red stars appear within the pillars. Some blue and white stars dot the overall scene.
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Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
M16, Eagle Nebula with its Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way, about 7,000 light-years away.
Esprit 120, QHY268M SkyWatcher EQ6R pro mount
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Celestron EdgeHD800, ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
Located at about 5700 LY from Earth in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is a huge stellar nursery brimming with active star formation. At its core, the famous Pillars of Creation, made famous by Hubble's groundbreaking photo, span several light years and contain thousands of protostars.
This is one of those jewels of the night sky that I can't help but revisit almost every year. The depth and colour of the nebula and the surrounding starfield is breathtaking and keeps luring me back time and time again. And each time, I try to capture it better than I did before. This is no different, as this is easily my best capture of this object. I can now put it to rest for at least a couple of years before I decide to revisit it once more.
-=Tech Data=-
-Equipment-
Imaging Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Mount: Celestron CGX
Imaging Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Filter: SCT Duo Narrowband
Focus: Pegasus Astro Dual Motor Focuser
Guide Camera: Orion SSAG
Guide Scope: Starfield 60mm guide scope
Dew Control: Kendrick
Power: Pegasus Astro Pocket Power Box
- Acquisition -
∙ 114 x 3 minute exposures (5hours 42 mins)
Calibration:
∙ Darks: Master dark from my dark library (2H of 120s darks)
- Bias: Master bias from my bias library (stack of 100 exposures)
- Software -
Acquisition / Rig Control: Sequence Generator Pro
Stacking: Astro Pixel Processor
Processing: PixInsight
Post Processing: Photoshop CC
Shot at the Camden Lake Provincial Wildlike Area near Moscow, Ontario.
English below
Un ritaglio di M16 in HOO per evidenziare i Pilastri della Creazione
A cutout of M16 in HOO to highlight the Pillars of Creation
Located at about 5700 LY from Earth in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is a huge stellar nursery brimming with active star formation. At its core, the famous Pillars of Creation, made famous by Hubble's groundbreaking photo, span several light years and contain thousands of protostars.
- TECH DATA -
Scope: Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P @ f/4
Mount: Celestron CGX
Camera: ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
Autoguider: Orion Mini Guide Scope + SSAG
Ha: 50 x 2 min exposures
RGB: 168 x 2 min exposures
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario
By combining images of the iconic Pillars of Creation from two cameras aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, the Universe has been framed in its infrared glory. Webb’s near-infrared image was fused with its mid-infrared image, setting this star-forming region ablaze with new details.
Myriad stars are spread throughout the scene. The stars primarily show up in near-infrared light, marking a contribution of Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam). Near-infrared light also reveals thousands of newly formed stars – look for bright orange spheres that lie just outside the dusty pillars.
In mid-infrared light, the dust is on full display. The contributions from Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) are most apparent in the layers of diffuse, orange dust that drape the top of the image, relaxing into a V. The densest regions of dust are cast in deep indigo hues, obscuring our view of the activities inside the dense pillars.
Dust also makes up the spire-like pillars that extend from the bottom left to the top right. This is one of the reasons why the region is overflowing with stars – dust is a major ingredient of star formation. When knots of gas and dust with sufficient mass form in the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravitational attraction, slowly heat up, and eventually form new stars. Newly formed stars are especially apparent at the edges of the top two pillars – they are practically bursting onto the scene.
At the top edge of the second pillar, undulating detail in red hints at even more embedded stars. These are even younger, and are quite active as they form. The lava-like regions capture their periodic ejections. As stars form, they periodically send out supersonic jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
Almost everything you see in this scene is local. The distant universe is largely blocked from our view both by the interstellar medium, which is made up of sparse gas and dust located between the stars, and a thick dust lane in our Milky Way galaxy. As a result, the stars take center stage in Webb’s view of the Pillars of Creation.
The Pillars of Creation is a small region within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6,500 light-years away.
Revisit Webb’s near-infrared image and its its mid-infrared image. The Pillars of Creation was made famous by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, and again in 2014.
MIRI was contributed by ESA and NASA, with the instrument designed and built by a consortium of nationally funded European Institutes (The MIRI European Consortium) in partnership with JPL and the University of Arizona.
Webb’s NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
Credits: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, J. DePasquale (STScI), A. Pagan (STScI), A. M. Koekemoer (STScI); CC BY 4.0
Web and Hubble photos of the Pillars of Creation are breathtaking, inspiring me to find the Eagle Nebula, which contains the Pillars of Creation. Finding it without a "go to" mount was daunting.
The Eagle Nebula is close to the top of the photo, and slightly left of center. By starting at 100 mm it was far easier to find, and then I zoomed into 370 mm for a closer look. This is the 100 mm composite, based on 30 photos, each 60 seconds exposure.
Aujourd’hui direction la nébuleuse de l’Aigle. M16, situé à environ 5 500 années-lumières de la Terre dans la queue du Serpent, est un amas ouvert d'étoiles enveloppé d'une nébuleuse : la nébuleuse de l’Aigle.
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La région centrale de la nébuleuse montre une belle architecture en colonnes, appelées « Piliers de la création ». Dans ces piliers de gaz de l'ordre de trois années-lumière de long, naissent les étoiles de l’amas.
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Voici une version réalisée sur deux nuits. Même si les conditions n’étaient pas optimales (nuages, humidité et un léger vent) je suis parvenu à cumuler 3h de pose.
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- skywatcher 200/1000
- Neq6 pro goto
- Canon 6d markII
- 1600 iso - 1min30 x 120
- Campagne arrageoise.
- 16/06/2020
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Merci d’avance! 🌌
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured a lush, highly detailed landscape – the iconic Pillars of Creation – where new stars are forming within dense clouds of gas and dust. The three-dimensional pillars look like majestic rock formations, but are far more permeable. These columns are made up of cool interstellar gas and dust that appear – at times – semi-transparent in near-infrared light.
Webb’s new view of the Pillars of Creation, which were first made famous when imaged by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 1995, will help researchers revamp their models of star formation by identifying far more precise counts of newly formed stars, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region. Over time, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and burst out of these dusty clouds over millions of years.
Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Anton M. Koekemoer (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)
#NASA #STScI #jwst #jameswebbspacetelescope #NASAGoddard #NASAMarshall #PillarsOfCreation
A HaOIII narrowband image of the Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16, M16, or NGC 6611).
The Eagle Nebula is part of a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7,000 light-years from Earth.
A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula in the north-eastern part is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers long. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the "Pillars of Creation".
About this image:
This image consists of old narrowband Hα and OIII data, that I reprocessed after combining it with more data that I recently imaged.
The Hydrogen dust and gas (the most basic and abundant element in the Universe), emits in the Red part of the spectrum, and the doubly ionized Oxygen emits in the Blue part of the spectrum.
Wavelengths of light in this image:
Hydrogen Alpha line 656nm (7nm bandwidth).
OIII line 500.7nm (6.5nm bandwidth).
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Plate Solving:
Platesolve 2 via Sequence Generator Pro.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 274.716, -13.820
Center RA, hms: 18h 18m 51.796s
Center Dec, dms: -13° 49' 11.111"
Size: 60.8 x 40 arcmin
Radius: 0.606 deg
Pixel scale: 2.21 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 9.62 degrees E of N
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/2794874#annotated
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I'm still getting the hang of Narrowband SHO Processing. Here's my go at the Eagle Nebula.
Comments always welcome, Thanks for the Favs.
Ha: 80 @ 420s
Oiii: 88 @ 420s
Sii: 96 @ 420s
Total: 30 hours 48 minutes
Data Collected June 9-21, 2020 from Ridgecrest CA.
Telescope: Orion 8" f/3.9 Newtonian.
Mount Orion Atlas Pro Az/Eq-G
Guide Camera ZWO 290mm Mini with OAG
Camera ZWO ASI 1600MM-Pro
Zwo Filters
Captured with N.I.N.A, Processed with PixInsight
Ho fotografato altre volte la bellissima "Nebulosa Aquila", ma non sono mai riuscito a raggiungere una buona integrazione che mi permettesse di elaborarla efficacemente. Questa volta, grazie al filtro multi banda stretta Optolong L-eNhance ho raggiunto un'integrazione di 13h senza essere assediato dall'Inquinamento luminoso. Il risultato personalmente mi soddisfa molto.
La Nebulosa Aquila, nota anche come "M16", "IC4703" o Regina delle Stelle, vasta e luminosa nebulosa ad emissione HII si trova in mezzo alla Via Lattea nella costellazione della Coda del Serpente e al suo interno ospita l'ammasso aperto di giovani stelle NGC 6611.
E' molto conosciuta per le formazioni singolari al suo interno, fra tutte i ""Pilastri della Creazione"".
Per le sue caratteristiche il FOV inquadrato presenta zone con intensità luminosa non omogenea con il cuore della nebulosa molto luminoso e le zone più esterne molto deboli; quindi ho dovuto trovare un buon compromesso per evidenziare le parti deboli e non bruciare quelle luminose.
Spero di esserci riuscito.
I have photographed the beautiful "Nebulosa Aquila" other times, but I have never managed to achieve a good integration that would allow me to process it effectively. This time, thanks to the Optolong L-eNhance narrow band multi-filter, I have achieved an integration of 13h without being besieged by light pollution. The result personally satisfies me a lot.
The Eagle Nebula, also known as "M16", "IC4703" or Queen of the Stars, a vast and bright HII emission nebula is located in the middle of the Milky Way in the constellation of the Serpent's Tail and within it hosts the open cluster of young stars NGC 6611.
It is well known for the singular formations within it, among all the ""Pillars of Creation"".
Due to its characteristics, the framed FOV presents areas with non-homogeneous light intensity with the heart of the nebula very bright and the outer areas very weak; therefore I had to find a good compromise to highlight the weak parts and not burn the bright ones.
I hope I succeeded.
Google translator
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Optic: APO Refractor Askar 103APO + 0.6X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5 Synscan
Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2" + SVbony UV-IR cut
-156x300s 250gain /250gain / 35 dark /21 flat / 18 darkflat /80 bias
t° sensor: -10°C
Date: 5-22-23-25/06/2025
Integration: 13h
Temperature: 21°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert
Stellar magnitude > 16.5 th (GAIA-DR3).
The Pillars of Creation are set off in a kaleidoscope of colour in the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared-light view. The pillars look like arches and spires rising out of a desert landscape, but are filled with semi-transparent gas and dust, and ever changing. This is a region where young stars are forming – or have barely burst from their dusty cocoons as they continue to form.
Protostars are the scene-stealers in this Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image. These are the bright red orbs that sometimes appear with eight diffraction spikes. When knots with sufficient mass form within the pillars, they begin to collapse under their own gravity, slowly heat up, and eventually begin shining brightly.
Along the edges of the pillars are wavy lines that look like lava. These are ejections from stars that are still forming. Young stars periodically shoot out jets that can interact within clouds of material, like these thick pillars of gas and dust. This sometimes also results in bow shocks, which can form wavy patterns like a boat does as it moves through water. These young stars are estimated to be only a few hundred thousand years old, and will continue to form for millions of years.
Although it may appear that near-infrared light has allowed Webb to “pierce through” the background to reveal great cosmic distances beyond the pillars, the interstellar medium stands in the way, like a drawn curtain.
This is also the reason why there are no distant galaxies in this view. This translucent layer of gas blocks our view of the deeper universe. Plus, dust is lit up by the collective light from the packed “party” of stars that have burst free from the pillars. It’s like standing in a well-lit room looking out a window – the interior light reflects on the pane, obscuring the scene outside and, in turn, illuminating the activity at the party inside.
Webb’s new view of the Pillars of Creation will help researchers revamp models of star formation. By identifying far more precise star populations, along with the quantities of gas and dust in the region, they will begin to build a clearer understanding of how stars form and burst out of these clouds over millions of years.
The Pillars of Creation is a small region within the vast Eagle Nebula, which lies 6500 light-years away.
Webb’s NIRCam was built by a team at the University of Arizona and Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center.
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScI); CC BY 4.0
I'll call this my first successful SHO narrowband image. Two things made this attempt successful. First, I realized that brightness difference between the core of M16 and the other parts of the image make it difficult to get a stretch that works for both. The other thing is that I used the PixInsight/NarrowbandNormalization to get the colors right.
ZWO ASI6200MM-P/Chroma 3nm SHO
Tele Vue NP101is (4" f/430)
Losmandy G11
Ha: 8 x 600s
Oiii: 4 x 600s
Sii 8 x 600s
3:20 total integration time
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific ED127, ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
E' incredibile ma vero. Avevo acquistato lo Schmidt-Cassegrain Celestron C8 (203mm f/10) nel 2000 e non lo avevo mai provato per la fotografia Deep-Sky. Neanche dopo aver acquistato il suo riduttore-correttore 0.63x, perchè non solo il suo campo corretto è più piccolo del formato APS-C ma ero anche convinto che la mia HEQ5-pro non fosse in grado di gestirne adeguatamente il peso e la guida. La ASI533MC-P, con il suo sensore da 1" (11.31x11.31mm) mi ha spinto a provare.
Ho iniziato con un target luminoso e quale migliore occasione che ripuntare la nebulosa M16?
Il controllo con la HEQ5 è al limite e alcune volte le oscillazioni per le folate di vento creano problemi. L'autoguida fa quello che può e la turbolenza spesso non mi ha aiutato.Forse un'ottica adattiva potrebbe fare miracoli, ma sono comunque rimasto piacevolmente sorpreso da questo primo rsultato ottenuto. Comunque c'è da dire che è stato un grande vantaggio per me avere sul tetto di casa "l'ossservatorio", che mi ha semplificato molto il processo di acquisizione, composto da 4 sessioni fotografiche.
I Pilastri della Creazione, la Guglia stellare, le nebulose oscure che si stagliano nel vasto tappeto di emissione Ha e i contorni delle nubi di idrogeno: questo spettacolo visto con una focale di 1260mm è stato veramente appagante.
Per i dettagli sulla Nebulosa Aquila vi rimando all'immagine flic.kr/p/2reF7PA
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It's incredible but true. I purchased the Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain (203mm f/10) in 2000 and had never tried it for deep-sky photography. Not even after purchasing its 0.63x reducer-corrector, because not only is its corrected field smaller than that of an APS-C format, but I was also convinced that my HEQ5-pro wouldn't be able to adequately handle its weight and guiding. The ASI533MC-P, with its 1" sensor (11.31x11.31mm), encouraged me to try.
I started with a bright target, and what better opportunity than to refocus on the M16 nebula?
Control with the HEQ5 is at its limits, and sometimes the oscillations caused by gusts of wind create problems. The autoguider does what it can, and the turbulence often didn't help. Perhaps adaptive optics could work miracles, but I was still pleasantly surprised by this first result. However, it must be said that it was a great advantage for me to have "the observatory" on the roof of my house, which greatly simplified the acquisition process, which consisted of 4 photographic sessions.
The Pillars of Creation, the Stellar Spire, the dark nebulae that stand out in the vast carpet of Ha emission and the outlines of hydrogen clouds: this spectacle seen with a focal length of 1260mm was truly rewarding.
For details on the Eagle Nebula, I refer you to the image flic.kr/p/2reF7PA
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Optic: Celestron SC C8 203mm f/10+ Celestron riducer-corrector 0.63X
Camera: ZWO ASI533MC-Pro
Mount: Sky Watcher HEQ5-Pro
Seeing: 4 (scala Antoniadi)
Filter: Narrowband Optolong L-eNhance 2" + SVbony UV-IR cut
-153x180s 250gain/ 25 dark /23 flat / 23 darkflat /80 bias
t° sensor: -5°C
Date: 12-13-14-15/07/2025
Integration: 7h 39m
Temperature: 25°C (media)
location for : Biancavilla -Catania-(Italy) 515m slm (Bortle 5-6)
Acquisition: NINA, PHDGuiding
Processing: DSS, SIRIL, PS, GraXpert
The Eagle Nebula is in the constellation of Serpens and contains several star forming regions. The “Pillars of Creation” are the tall spire like structures in the image composed of hydrogen and dust.
There are several smaller dark globules visible in this wide field image. Click to see the high resolution image.
Data for this image was collected by the following 1m telescopes operated by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope (LCOGT) Network:
1m-04, 1m-05 and 1m-09 located at Cerro Tololo, Chile
1m-10 and 1m-12 located at Sutherland, South Africa
The Principal Investigator for this data set was BJ Fulton.
For this image I used publicly available data from the LCOGT Science Archive. This image is a false color image composed of data acquired by the LCOGT telescopes with the following filters:
SDSS i' Exposure: 172x3 mins = 8.6 hours
SDSS r' Exposure: 184x3mins = 9.2 hours
SDSS g' Exposure: 156x3 mins = 7.8 hours
Image replaced September 17, 2017. Stars are are now more neutral looking with less cyan or magenta cores. The image is also more pleasing with less red and stronger blues.
Publishing credits:
1) LCOGT at their website as part of their image gallery: lcogt.net/images/space/
2) Universe Today picked up this image for their Instagram stream. instagram.com/p/31oSVCFnOd/
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Chéseaux in 1745-46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the centre of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the Pillars of Creation.
This region of active current star formation is about 7000 light-years distant. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometres long
Details
M: Mesu 200
T: ODK10
C: QSI683 with 3nm Astrodon Ha filter
28x1800s
Total exposure 14 hours
Soaring just above Sagittarius in our southern skies, the Eagle nebula (M16; NGC 6611) is part of a large emission cloud of hydrogen atoms and is the home of a young open cluster of stars, 7,000 light years from Earth. At the center of the nebula are the pillars of star-forming dark clouds. Made famous by images from the Hubble Space Telescope (www.nasa.gov/image-feature/the-pillars-of-creation), these "Pillars of Creation" are understood to be a stellar "nursery" and stretch roughly 4 to 5 light years in length. Nearby, off to the northeast (towards the lower left in this image) is another "Black Pillar" spire, about 9.5 light years long. [in Explore, 8 August 2019]
Hydrogen alpha (red color) combined with OIII, which in this image is manifest in areas where reddish hue is whitened.
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Image captured:
2-3 August 2019
South Shore, Lake San Antonio, CA.
Narrow band data:
9 x 15 min of Ha
8 x 15 min of OIII
(4.25 hrs of total integration)
Unbinned (1x1)
QSI-690
AT6RC with Field Flattener
The Eagle nebula (M16/NGC6611) in the constellation Serpens exposed through narrowband filters at Hα, OIII and Hβ wavelengths to emulate natural colors as those narrowband wavelengths are closely corresponding to the RGB wide band.
This image was taken with a 8" SCT (at the native 2032mm focal length), with a QHY268M camera and tracked using a "hypertuned" CGEM mount.
The total exposure time of this image was 12 hours and 45 minutes.
Exposures: Hα:17x600s, OIII:17x900s, Hβ:17x1200s @ HCG:62/OFS:25
The color channel assignments are HAlpha, OIII and HBeta as RGB.
365/365ish
“Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.”
Mike Myers
now it really is the end...birthday to birthday...done!
it's been a quiet birthday spent mooching around blackpool with Rae-mundo (space cadet level iv) because it's thursday and thus a 'school night' the party is happening on saturday when i shall have assorted wierdos, lezzers and poofs imbibing of the grape and grain, eating of the chilli and generally making merry.
i've taken 367 pictures for this project and although some are shockingly bad i am proud of them all...what i love is that i have a basic knowledge (infant level) that i can now expand upon in a 52.
the numbering anomaly has been uncovered by the delectable Mrs.Cattus and will corrected in good time...what has come to light is that there's 2 days pictures not posted...i'm absolutely sure they're on my hard-drive but some searching will be required to unearth them and post them...................oh well i did say it was '-ish' *shrugs*
My first image of the Eagle Nebula (M16).
This is a tricky one for me as it's quite low in the sky from my latitude. I'm delighted the pillars of creation (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillars_of_Creation) showed up in the image.
There is always something special about seeing a wispy comet among the star clouds of the Milky Way. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) is seen on the evening of October 16,2025 approaching the Milky Way in Sagittarius. Near the bottom left is the small Sagittarius star cloud followed by M16 and M17 nebulas above. The image was made of 20 twenty second exposures taken with a Canon R6 mark II and a Canon 200 mm f/2.8L II lens. (ISO 800, f/3.5)
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific ED-80
ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
A widefield HaOIII Narrowband Bi-Color image of the Eagle Nebula, with the "Pillars of Creation" visible in the Nebula. The Eagle Nebula is catalogued as Messier 16, M16, or NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula and The Spire. M16 is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens.
The Eagle Nebula is part of a diffuse emission nebula, or H II region, which is catalogued as IC 4703. This region of active current star formation is about 7000 light-years distant. A spire of gas that can be seen coming off the nebula in the north-eastern part is approximately 9.5 light-years or about 90 trillion kilometers long.
Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the Pillars of Creation.
The cluster associated with the nebula has approximately 8100 stars, which are mostly concentrated in a gap in the molecular cloud to the north-west of the Pillars.
About this image:
Photographing in specific (or narrow) wavelengths of light creates a very different type of image. The Hydrogen dust and gas (the most basic and abundant element in the Universe), emits in the Red part of the spectrum, and the doubly ionized Oxygen emits in the Blue part of the spectrum. This HaOIII Bi-Color technique is a great way to show the Hydrogen and doubly ionized Oxygen in a DSO (Deep Sky Object).
Gear:
William Optics Star 71mm f/4.9 Imaging APO Refractor Telescope.
William Optics 50mm Finder Scope.
Celestron SkySync GPS Accessory.
Orion Mini 50mm Guide Scope.
Orion StarShoot Autoguider.
Celestron AVX Mount.
QHYCCD PoleMaster.
Celestron StarSense.
MBox USB Meteostation.
RoboFocus RF3 Focuser.
Optolong SHO, L-Pro and LRGB filters.
QHYCFW2-M-US Filterwheel (7 position x 36mm).
QHY163M Cooled CMOS Monochrome Astronomy Camera.
Tech:
Guiding in Open PHD 2.6.5.
Image acquisition in Sequence Generator Pro.
Camera Settings:
QHY Sensor Sensitivity:
Gain: 120
Offset: 35
Imaged at -20°C or -4 °F
HaOIII Bi Color:
Ha = 18 x 180 sec.
OIII = 22 x 180 sec.
Wavelengths of light:
Optolong SHO Narrowband filters:
H-Alpha line 656nm (7nm bandwidth)
OIII line 500.7nm (6.5nm bandwidth)
Processing:
Pre-Processing and Linear workflow in PixInsight,
and finished in Photoshop.
Astrometry Info:
Center RA, Dec: 274.809, -13.754
Center RA, hms: 18h 19m 14.258s
Center Dec, dms: -13° 45' 14.274"
Size: 2.62 x 2.01 deg
Radius: 1.650 deg
Pixel scale: 5.89 arcsec/pixel
Orientation: Up is 90.7 degrees E of N
View an Annotated Sky Chart for this image.
View this image in the view in World Wide Telescope.
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SQM-L Sky Quality Reading:
20.5
Flickr Explore:
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equipmnent: Sigma 28mmF1.4 DG HSM Art and Canon EOS 5Dmk2-sp2, modified by Seo-san on Takahashi EM-200FG-Temma 2Z-BL, autoguided with Fujinon 1:2.8/75mm C-Mount Lens, Pentax x2 Extender, Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider, and PHD2 Guiding
exposure: 6 times x 15 minutes, 4 x 4 min, 8 x 1 minute at ISO 1,600 and f/3.5
site: 2,430m above sea level at lat. 24 39 52 South and long. 70 16 11 West near Cerro Armazones Chile
Atacama Desert just before Sunset July 2019
I only managed to get 90 minutes as it's too low in the horizon and it only appears over the roof of my house quite late. I managed to capture this one clear night in May, but haven't been able to get more time since then. I'll come back to it later on this summer and add more time with a different filter to hopefully improve detail.
Taken with my William Optics FLT91, F6AIII 0.8x reducer, ZWO ASI2600MC Pro camera and Astronomik CLS-CCD 2" filter.
Post-processed using PixInsight and Affinity Photo 2.
From SkySafari:
"Messier 16 is a conspicuous region of active star formation, appearing in the constellation Serpens Cauda. This giant cloud of interstellar gas and dust is commonly known as the Eagle Nebula, and has already created a cluster of young stars. The nebula is also referred to the Star Queen Nebula and as IC 4703.
The Eagle Nebula lies some 7,000 light years away in the Sagittarius-Carina spiral arm of our galaxy - the next arm inward from us."
More acquisition details: astrob.in/19o07q/0/
M16 The Eagle in HST palette
Since it's cloudy and I'm impatient, I added my HA data captured recently to older color data:
9/9/20:
HA-10x300 as LUM
QHY23M & Meade 8" LX-50
9/21-9/23 2017
LUM-28x30
Red-21x30
Green-18x30
Blue-23x30
HA-15x120
OIII-22x120
SII-16x120
QHY163M &11" Celestron EdgeHD w/Hyperstar(F/2)
Also known as the Star Queen Nebula, the Eagle is #16 in Charles Messier's 1764 "not a comet list". It lies an estimated 7000 light years away in the constellation of Serpens
Center (RA, Dec):(274.721, -13.845)
Center (RA, hms):18h 18m 53.061s
Center (Dec, dms):-13° 50' 41.487"
Size:26.9 x 23.1 arcmin
Radius:0.295 deg
Pixel scale:1.39 arcsec/pixel
Orientation:Up is 258 degrees E of N
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope. The nebula contains several active star-forming gas and dust regions, including the aforementioned Pillars of Creation. The Eagle Nebula lies in the Sagittarius Arm of the Milky Way.
Equipment:
Explore Scientific ED-80
ZWO ASI2600MM, EAF, EFW, ASIAIR, AM5
Antlia 3nm SHO Pro filters
Pixinsight, Photoshop
My first attempt to create starless Eagle nebula M16 using Stars eXterminator. The colour is boosted and more sharpening applied using PS.
Located at about 5700 LY from Earth in the constellation Serpens, the Eagle Nebula is a huge stellar nursery brimming with active star formation. At its core, the famous Pillars of Creation, made famous by Hubble's groundbreaking photo, span several light years and contain thousands of protostars.
Once again, I'm revisiting this nebula that I can't get enough of. This time, it was the first target I shot through my new duo-narrowband filter that blocks all light wavelengths except Hydrogen Alpha (656.28 nm) and Oxygen III (500.7 nm). Luckily, this nebula emits the majority of its light in the Hα wavelengths with a bit of OIII, so I was able to capture some fine detail that had been lost in prior attempts.
Once I figure out how, I'll be combining this data along with my full RGB image of the nebula to bring in the more natural star colours as well as bringing out the sharp Hα elements.
Data:
Sky-Watcher Quattro 250P
Celestron CGX, guided
ZWO ASI 1600MC-Pro
STC Astro Duo-Narrowband filter (Hα and OIII)
70 x 2 min exposures.
Shot at the L&A County Dark Sky Viewing Area near Erinsville, Ontario
The Eagle Nebula (catalogued as Messier 16 or M16, and as NGC 6611, and also known as the Star Queen Nebula) is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745–46. Both the "Eagle" and the "Star Queen" refer to visual impressions of the dark silhouette near the center of the nebula, an area made famous as the "Pillars of Creation" imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope.
The pillars are composed of cool molecular hydrogen and dust that are being eroded by photoevaporation from the ultraviolet light of relatively close and hot stars. The leftmost pillar is about four light-years in length. The finger-like protrusions at the top of the clouds are larger than the Solar System, and are made visible by the shadows of evaporating gaseous globules. [Wikipedia]
Imaged using the Celestron C14 Edge HD telescope in dome 4 at Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos observatory in Gorafe, Spain.
A higher resolution image with imaging details can be found on my Astrobin page at: astrob.in/svt627/0/
Thank you for looking.
Technical summary:
Captured: 15 Nights in May, June and July 2024
Location: Turismo Astronómico, Los Coloraos, Gorafe, Spain
Bortle Class: 3
Total Integration: 42 hours 51 mins
Filters: Red 78 x 180s, Green 74 x 180s, Blue 77 x 180s, Ha 220 x 180s, Oiii 177 x 180s, 193 x 180s Si
Pixel Scale: 0.4 arcsec/pixel
Telescope: Celestron C14 Edge HD
Image Camera: ZWO ASI6200MM Pro
Filters: Astronomik R, G, B, Ha, Oiii, Sii
Mount: Skywatcher EQ 8
Computer: Minix NUC
Capture software: NINA, PHD2
Editing software: PixInsight, Adobe Lightroom, and Photoshop